Adonise
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Adonise is a verb meaning (transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
Meaning
(transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
More Meanings
- (intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance.
Example Sentences
Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;
Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets.
Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard.
Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.
Word Forms
- adonises
- adonising
- adonised
- adonize
- Adonize
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include adonize, adorn, ornate, decorate, honest, commend.
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